ILLICIT STILLS
MANY FOUND IN BRITAIN. [BY CABLE PRESS ASSN. COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, December 17. Owing to the high price of spirits (whisky being 12/6 a bottle), the production of illicit still spirit has been increasing in the industrial centres. Customs and excise men rounding up culprits this year, have seized eleven plants in England and Wales, ten plants in Scotland and eighty-nine plants in Ulster. These distilleries are difficult to discover. The usual practice is to confine the sale of their product within a restricted community. The investigations show that some small stills have been making a profit of £lOO per month.
The illicit home-brewed whisky is a vicious fiery drink. Usually it is only a few days old when it is sold. It is often 69 per cent, overproof —compared with the fixed strength of 30 per cent, underproof whisky that, is retailed legally throughout Britain.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 December 1933, Page 7
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